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Recipes

Get Baked: Spectacular Speculoos Cookie Butter Bars

If you haven’t tried Trader Joe’s cookie butter yet, your whole world is about to change.

Vanessa February 22, 2013 39 Comments
Literature

Things I Read That I Love #64: Giddy, Girlish and Deeply Shallow

Topics include sorority rush, circus sideshow acts, murder, Jeopardy, college in China, Utopian musical communities, the post office, the mall, the pope, the post office and more!

Riese February 22, 2013 7 Comments
Visual Art

Hey NYC LGBTQ Artists, Submit Your Stuff To “Love Out Loud” Group Show

Vanessa’s Team Pick: An open call for LGBT artists, photographers, and sculptors in the New York City metropolitan area.

Vanessa February 22, 2013 3 Comments
First Person

A Prairie Homo Companion: Prairie Homo Racisms

Since I easily dismissed the strange looks people gave my white mom and her three brown-skinned little kids and the questions about where I was from as just ignorant things people said, I grew up not very aware of racism and micro-aggressions. I didn’t think of myself as black or as white.

Malaika February 21, 2013 85 Comments
Pop Culture Fix

Brittani’s Video Party: Three Love Stories and an Otter

A model and basketball player find love, a pianist searches for his violinist wife, THE couple meets their match, and a sea otter is athletically adorable.

Brittani February 21, 2013 9 Comments
Literature

Lez Liberty Lit #14: I Love The Smell Of Novellas In The Morning

Batwoman’s lesbian wedding, queer fiction for Black History Month, Jeanette Winterson on Virginia Woolf and confessions from an analogue-obsessed book sniffer, book cakes and so much more!

Ryan Yates February 21, 2013 14 Comments
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College Lesbianage Class of 2016: Winter Wunderkinds

This month’s update finds our Lesbianagelings finishing up their finals and heading back to their homelands. What have they learned about the world and themselves during this first semester of college?

Lesbianage February 21, 2013 8 Comments
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Get Your 2013 Autostraddle Calendar For $8! 48-Hour Sale!

We’re clearing out the 2013 Calendars — time to get yours!

Riese February 21, 2013 13 Comments
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Get Baked: Vegan Hamantaschen for Purim

“I hadn’t eaten hamantaschen since going vegan almost nine years ago, which makes no sense because there’s no excuse not to veganize all baked goods all the time.”

Stef February 21, 2013 32 Comments
Politics + Activism

New Gallup Poll Answers the Question “How Gay Is Your State?”

Gallup found out for you! Hint: not very.

Cara February 21, 2013 33 Comments
Politics + Activism

Don’t Let London Rain on Your Pride Parade or Potential Lack Thereof

The prospects for London Pride 2013 look bleak, but hopefully communities can change that.

Kristen February 20, 2013 3 Comments
Society + Culture

Bridal Magazine Rejects, Then Accepts, Ad Featuring Lesbian Couple After Internet Feelingsfest

“We are so sorry that we acted out of fear and uncertainty. We had never been faced with such a decision and we should have acted with our hearts.”

Carmen February 20, 2013 19 Comments
Society + Culture

More Than Words: AP Style Guide Is Once Again No Partner (or Husband, or Wife) To Gays

The AP Style Guide’s newest language decision is making everyone cry into their cake.

Cara February 20, 2013 13 Comments
Politics + Activism

Mexican Supreme Court Invokes U.S. Civil Rights Legislation In Marriage Equality Ruling

Marriage equality is slowly but steadily making its way throughout Mexico, this time thanks to a little help from our own Loving v. Virginia and Brown v. Board of Education.

Laura February 20, 2013 8 Comments
Society + Culture

Also.Also.Also: Children and Lawmakers Alike Write Letters for Gay Rights And Other Stories We Missed This Week

Clive Davis is bi, the Millionaire Matchmaker is…. not, and Toni Braxton wishes she was a lesbian. “And not a lipstick lesbian, either.” Also, you got paid this week, right?

Carmen February 20, 2013 8 Comments
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Claudia Is Intersex, Let’s Talk About It

Hey there, Autostraddlers. I’m Claudia, and I’m intersex.

Claudia February 20, 2013 216 Comments
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Anonymous Sex Toy Review: The Stronic Eins

The newest offering from the Germany-based Fun Factory, the Stronic looks exactly like any other sex toy – but it isn’t.

Guest February 20, 2013 8 Comments
Music

Almost Famous: Top Less Gay Love Tekno Party

Super queer Canadian glam-pop that’ll dare you to dance.

Crystal February 20, 2013 5 Comments
Society + Culture

Lez Give Them Something To Talk About: First Time Gay Hook-Ups, Qs For Lesbian Moms, Et Al

Five recently-published articles from the mainstream including “I’m a lesbian who loves Channing Tatum” and “My Lady-Date Is Hotter Than Me And I’m Trying To Be An Adult About It.”

Gabrielle Korn February 19, 2013 29 Comments
Comedy

Hilarious Hostel: Get Into Bed With Queer Comedy At PodShare

Wifi and memory foam AND a stand up comedy show? Oh my! Plus meet the queer startup kid behind the innovative pod hotel!

Rebecca Donohue February 19, 2013 36 Comments
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